Ring-toss ring



M. c. DODGE RING TOSS RING March 24, 1925.

File d Jan. 10, 1925 Patented Mar. 24, 1925.

UNITED STA TES MILO C. DODGE, 0 F AUBURN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO COLUMBIAN ROPE COMPANY, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 01? NEW YORK.

RING-TOSS RING.

Application filed January 10, 1925.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MILO C. DODGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Cayugaand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ring-Toss Rings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rope structures and particularly to a rope structure used in a game now commonly known as ring toss.

In the game, as played, the participants seek to toss a ring over a stake, or other object, as in quoits, but the rings are made of rope in order that the surface on which the game is played will not be injured as would be the case of the rings were made up of metal. The rope structures or rings of rope heretofore used in this game have been found to be rather short lived primarily on account of the rings losing their stiffness and becoming very flexible and distorted so that the player cannot handle them very conveniIently and must of necessity discontinue using them.

In view of this, the present invention contemplates a rope structure or ring of rope for use in playing ring toss that will retain its original circular shape and its rigidity, thereby increasing its length of usefulness. In accomplishing this highly desirable object certain features have been taken into consideration, such as the weight and cost of production of the ring and as a result the ring of the present invention will not only outlast those now on the market but its weight is practically the same and its cost of production has not been materially increased so that it can be produced at substantially the same figure as the old type of ring.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view of a ring embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates an unraveled end of a fragment of the ring.

As illustrated in the drawings the ends of the rope from which the ring is formed Serial No. 1,675.

are connected together by a tubular member 10 generally of wood. The ends of the rope may be secured in the member 10 in any de sired manner.

The present daytoss ring of ordinary rope very quickly loses its rigidity and circular shape, but in the present instance the ring is provided with an internal reinforce to overcome these results. The rope from which the ring is formed is made up of a plurality, preferably four, strands or readies, such as indicated at 11, and at the center of each of these strands or readies there is a reinforce element 12.

It is well known to place a metallic rein force in rope structures but for purposes hereinafter set forth, the reinforce element of the present invention is made of paper preferably twisted and sized so that'it is comparatively stiff or rigid and is not apt to become unraveled. 'l Vith a reinforce element of this nature embedded in each of the strands or readies it will be found that the ring retains its shape and rigidity or stiffness after long usage and by making the reinforce of paper neither the weight nor the cost of production of the ring is increased to any appreciable extent. It might also be stated that the use of paper markers embedded in rope to indicate origin of the rope is also old but the present invention is easily differentiated from that practice in several particulars, i. e., the paper markers if twisted at all, do not lend rigidity to the rope and in fact were never intended to do so and such markers if twisted at all are always free to unravel, this being necessary in 0rder that the name of the manufacturer of the rope might be ascertained.

WVhat is claimed is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ringtoss ring of rope characterized by the provision of a comparatively light, stiff reinforce element embedded in one of the strands thereof.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a ring-toss ring of rope characterized by the provision of a stiff paper reinforce element embedded in one of the strands thereof.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a ringtoss ring of rope characterized by the pro vision of a paper reinforce member embed der in one of the strands thereof, said paper being twisted to lend rigidity to the ring structure.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a ring-toss ring of rope composed of a plurality of strands or readies characterized by the provision of a reinforce element embedded in each of the strands thereof, said reinforce elements each being composed of twisted 10 paper sized to lend rigidity thereto and to prevent unraveling thereof.

MILO C. DODGE. 

